Fortitude is a deliberate encountering of danger and enduring of labour.

The fortitude of the beleaguered garrison was the admiration of the world.

Such fortitude is commoner in our profession, I think, than in any other.

OSWALD Ay, look up Cast round you your mind's eye, and you will learn Fortitude is the child of Enterprise: Great actions move our admiration, chiefly Because they carry in themselves an earnest That we can suffer greatly.

Such a feeling would be justified, if we could believe that fortitude was a positive trait in his character.

But we think it will appear, upon a closer examination, that his fortitude was a negative, not a positive quality; it was insensibility, not courage.

But her own fortitude was her best support.